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Revamped Armory Show draws praise and crowds

March 7, 2017

THE ART NEWSPAPER | Dan Duray:

The Armory Show, opening to the public today and running through 5 March at Piers 92 and 94 on the west side of Manhattan, is the subject of scrutiny this year, the first fully under new executive director Benjamin Genocchio, and he has taken pains to distinguish the fair from its global competitors. “This is not a franchise fair,” Genocchio told assembled journalists as the doors opened on Wednesday. “This is a New York institution.”… Read more

Image: Jeffrey Deitch has gone all out at the Armory Show with a salon-style hanging built around a comparatively diminutive painting by Florine Stettheimer (Image: BFA)